Monstrous bodies : feminine power in young adult horror fiction /
June Pulliam.
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland and Company, Incorporated, Publishers, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Subversive spirits: resistance and the uncanny in the young adult ghost story -- Blood and bitches: sexual politics and the female lycanthrope in young adult fiction -- "An ye harm none, do as ye will": magic, gender and agency in young adult narratives of witchcraft -- conclusion.
"This book examines three types of female monstrous Others in young adult fiction and considers what each has to tell us about feminine subordination in a supposedly post-feminist world, where girls continue to be pressured to silence their voices and stifle their desires in conformity with contemporary ideas about what it means to be a good woman"--
9781476616636
Young adult literature--History and criticism. Other (Philosophy) in literature. Women in literature. Horror in literature. Young adults--Books and reading.